Peter Pan, Chapter II. THE SHADOW, sentence 92
Strong man though he was, there is no doubt that he had behaved rather foolishly over the medicine.
Who acts: man, doubt · What happens: be, behave · To what, where: Strong man, doubt, medicine
This is a sentence of «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Chapter II. THE SHADOW. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man, doubt), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Parsed by Mova, not checked by a teacher. This tree is Mova's own parse (the en model, on the CPU, when the site is built); it may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 man | amod |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 3 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 5 was | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 was | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 is | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 was | punct |
| 7 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 8 is | expl |
| 8 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 doubt | det |
| 10 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 is | nsubj |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 behaved | mark |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 behaved | nsubj |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 behaved | aux |
| 14 | behaved | behave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 10 doubt | acl |
| 15 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 16 foolishly | advmod |
| 16 | foolishly | foolishly | ADV | _ | 14 behaved | advmod |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 19 medicine | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 medicine | det |
| 19 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 behaved | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 man | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | man | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | be | present | no doubt | Strong man not said here | there | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot man=Theme | |||
| 3 | behave | past · perfect | doubt | no doubt not said here | the medicine | foolishly property | tree rules |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Peter Pan» by J. M. Barrie, Project Gutenberg book 16 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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